Chapter 152

In an instant, following Lin Yang's order, the soldiers below all received the order and left!

Subsequently, in Guanglingcheng, several fast horses flew out, heading straight for the military camp outside the city!

Chen Deng, who had just stepped into Guanglingcheng, seeing the scouts go out, furrowed his brows slightly, realizing something was wrong!

"Has something happened in Guanglingcheng? Could it be Xuzhou?!"

Chen Deng's heart skipped a beat, thinking of that existence in Xuzhou!

Thinking of this, Chen Deng's pace stalled, and he could not help but hesitate!

After a long while, in the Commandery Governor's mansion

"My lord!"

Zhao Yun, Taishi Ci, and others who arrived in a hurry, seeing that Cheng Yu, Gu Yong, Wang Can, and others were all present, immediately knew the gravity of the matter!

Bowing, they then sat down in their respective positions!

"Hmm, everyone is here!"

Looking at Cheng Yu, Zhao Yun, Taishi Ci, Gu Yong, and others in the field, Lin Yang nodded!

Now he is already a Commandery Governor, with a group of civil and military officials under his command, such as Cheng Yu, Gu Yong, and Zhao Yun!

Even facing Xuzhou Provincial Governor Tao Qian, Lin Yang is not afraid at all!

"Zhongde, tell everyone the situation we have obtained so far!"

Glancing at Cheng Yu below, the latter nodded, and then began to speak!

"According to current intelligence, Xuzhou Provincial Governor Tao Qian has dispatched his general Cao Bao, leading thirty thousand troops, coming along the direction of Jianling; they will arrive in Quyang in a few days!"

Pointing to the direction on the map, Cheng Yu began to speak!

Hearing that Xuzhou Provincial Governor Tao Qian had dispatched thirty thousand troops, everyone's brows furrowed slightly!

Nowadays, Lin Yang has a total of over forty thousand soldiers under his command!

A mere thirty thousand troops should not be enough!

"With thirty thousand troops arriving, there are only two possibilities; either Tao Qian is guarding against the lord!"

Gu Yong, sitting below Cheng Yu, looked at the map and also expressed his own views!

"Or, he has reinforcements from other places!"

After Gu Yong finished speaking, Cheng Yu also nodded!

His thoughts were probably the same!

The news obtained so far is simply too little!

Based on this alone, one cannot infer too much!

Unlike Lin Yang, who is a Commandery Governor, Tao Qian is the Xuzhou Provincial Governor!

Xuzhou has five large commanderies under its command; besides Guangling Commandery, which is occupied by Lin Yang, there are also Donghai, Langya, Xiapi, and Peng Cheng, four large commanderies!

Besides the forty thousand troops under his direct command, Tao Qian has heavy troops stationed in the other three commanderies!

Especially in the Kaiyang area of Langya Commandery, where a full thirty thousand Taishan troops are stationed!

Their commander is Zang Ba, a military general who surrendered to Tao Qian during the Yellow Turban rebellion in Xuzhou years ago!

The Taishan troops under his command have impressive combat power and are the most valiant in all of Xuzhou besides the Danyang troops!

And Xiapi and Peng Cheng commanderies also have over twenty thousand troops; combined, Tao Qian has over one hundred thousand troops under his command!

It can be said!

In the world today, the only people who possess such military power are Yuan Shao, who occupies Jizhou; Gongsun Zan, who occupies Youzhou; and Dong Zhuo, who occupies Luoyang and Sili!

"My lord, what we need to be vigilant about at the moment is the Taishan troops in Kaiyang!"

Cheng Yu pointed to the Kaiyang area where the Taishan troops were located!

The Taishan troops are also known as the Taishan bandits!

Their commander, Zang Ba, used to be a bandit in Taishan!

Later, he was recruited by Tao Qian and stationed in Kaiyang of Langya Commandery!

Used by Tao Qian to block the military focus of Yanzhou!

The thirty thousand Taishan troops under his command are all veteran soldiers who have experienced many battles, and their combat power is extremely fierce; one must be on guard!

"Hmm, hmm!"

Nodding, Lin Yang's gaze, looking at the map of the entire Xuzhou territory, could not help but furrow his brows tightly!

This Tao Qian looks weak and easy to bully!

Unexpectedly, really moving him a little would make him so uncomfortable!

Sure enough!

A Provincial Governor who can dominate a region is not simple!

"My lord, I actually think Tao Gongzu will not use Zang Ba's Taishan troops!"

With Lin Yang furrowing his brows, Gu Yong below pondered for a while, and then spoke out!

"Although Tao Gongzu accepted the surrender of Zang Ba and others, he himself is of the Danyang lineage and looks down on people like Zang Ba who are of bandit origin!"

Gu Yong spoke, directly hitting the nail on the head, pointing out the discord between Tao Qian and Zang Ba!

Although Tao Qian is the Xuzhou Provincial Governor!

But he is not a person from the local noble families of Xuzhou!

He raised his troops from Danyang and sat on the position of Xuzhou Provincial Governor all the way!

After rising to power, not only did he suppress a series of local powerful noble families like Mi Zhu and Chen Deng, but he also successively employed local Danyang people like Cao Bao!

The Taishan faction like Zang Ba, in Tao Qian's hands, is just a dog watching the gateway to Yanzhou!

Tao Gongzu will not let Zang Ba of Taishan come over!

"Hmm, what Yuantan said is also reasonable!"

Cheng Yu, Wang Can, and others all nodded, and Lin Yang, sitting above, suddenly felt a headache!

Is this the scheming of the Three Kingdoms strategists?

Even the discord between Tao Qian and Zang Ba can be guessed!

If Lin Yang hadn't happened to read this part of history, he would probably have been led around by them!

"Therefore, there is a high probability that Tao Qian will not leave the gateway to Yanzhou wide open; if he wants to move troops, he can only move the troops of Xiapi and Peng Cheng commanderies!"

Pointing to Peng Cheng and Xiapi commanderies on the map, the troops of these two commanderies combined are estimated to be between thirty and forty thousand!

Once they converge with the thirty thousand-strong army led by Cao Bao, there will be no less than sixty thousand troops attacking!

Looking at the analysis of Cheng Yu, Gu Yong, Wang Can, and others, Lin Yang also gradually became clear!

This is the benefit of having strategists!

Otherwise!

He wouldn't even know how the other party was sending troops, and could only passively wait to be beaten!

"My lord, you can send people to scout the movements of the troops in the direction of Xiapi, and be prepared in advance!"

Cheng Yu, Gu Yong, and others said to Lin Yang!

Nodding to everyone, Lin Yang also ordered the soldiers to check the direction of Xiapi to see if there were any troop movements!

"My lord, nowadays there are nearly one million people in Guangling Commandery under the lord's command; you should recruit local braves and form a new army!" Wang Can bowed and said!

During this period, Wang Can also counted the number of people under the governance of Guangling Commandery!

The original Guangling Commandery only had over six hundred thousand people!

But Lin Yang brought back over one hundred thousand people from Yangzhou, and plus the continuous recruitment of refugees in Jiangdu, many people from Yangzhou and Yuzhou flocked here!

Causing a mere Guangling Commandery to have a population as high as over nine hundred thousand!

With over nine hundred thousand people, the troops are only over forty-five thousand!

This is not considered militaristic; you can recruit local braves again, form a new army, and use this to contend with Tao Qian of Xuzhou!

Although everyone now knows the direction of the other party's troop deployment, it is an indisputable fact that Tao Qian has many troops!

"My lord, I second the motion!"

Gu Yong bowed and said; he is in favor of recruiting local braves and forming a new army!

Nowadays, there are many people in Guangling Commandery, and the food supplies are extremely sufficient!

The people all have something to eat!

At this time, if you don't recruit new soldiers, once you are burdened by Tao Qian's troops and the people's lives are destroyed by the flames of war, it will be difficult to recruit then!

Once we retreat to defend the city, Tao Qian will definitely let his troops coerce the people to move north!

"My lord, this matter is feasible!"